[Adapted from the online documentation]
The Numeric Data Package (NDP-043C) consists of a digital data base
that may be used to identify coastlines along the U.S. West Coast that
are at risk to sea-level ...

The primary purpose of the USGS National Assessment of Coastal Change Project
is to provide accurate representations of pre-storm ground conditions for areas
that are designated high priority because ...

Louisiana contains 25 percent of the vegetated wetlands and 40 percent of the
tidal wetlands in the 48 conterminous States. These critical natural systems
are being lost. Louisiana leads the Nation ...

Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, contains a persistent erosional section in the shadow of the San Francisco ebb tidal delta and south of Sloat Boulevard that threatens valuable public infrastructure ...

A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability
of the coast to future sea-level rise within Cumberland Island National
Seashore in Georgia. The CVI ranks the following ...

A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability
of the coast to future sea-level rise within Gulf Islands National Seashore
(GUIS) in Mississippi and Florida. The CVI ...

Coastal Changes Due to Sea-Level Rise:
One of the most important applied problems in coastal geology today is
determining the physical response of the coastline to sea-level rise.
Predicting shoreline ...

This report describes a database of sedimentary characteristics of tsunami deposits derived from published accounts of tsunami deposit investigations conducted shortly after the occurrence of a tsunami. ...

Since the California Gold Rush of 1849, sediment deposition, erosion, and the
bathymetry of South San Francisco Bay have been altered by both natural
processes and human activities. Historical hydrographic ...

The distribution of sedimentary environments presents the limited domain of
deposits from "River Input", the flood tide wedge of "Atlantic Sediment", and
the extensive region of indigenous, recycled ...

Romania, an eastern European country, is severely affected by a variety of natural hazards. These include frequent earthquakes, floods, landslides, soil erosion, and drought all of which have major ...

This digital database contains information on synoptic storms and other
climatological factors that affect coastlines and may be used by a vector-based
ARC/INFO geographic information system (GIS), ...

This data set is intended for scientific research of beach morphology and
volume changes.
Biannual beach profiles were collected at 42 Oahu and 36 Maui Locations between
August 1994 and August 1999. ...

An earthquake occurred off the west coast of Hokkaido and the small offshore island of Okushiri in the Sea of Japan. In two to five minutes the tsunami, one of the largest in Japan's history, engulfed ...

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a method of locating objects on the
ground using aerial-borne equipment. It is similar to RADAR or SONAR in that
the two-way travel time of an energy beam reflected ...

Major storms commonly are cited as important geomorphic and sedimentologic
agents, and their significance is perhaps most emphatically noted in
interpretations of modern and ancient tidal flats. The ...

The analyses of landscape change presented in this dataset use historical surveys, aerial data, and satellite data to track landscape changes in coastal Louisiana. Persistent loss and gain data are ...

The slopes above streams and rivers are subjected to a variety of processes that cause them to recede and retreat from the river or stream channel. These processes, collectively called mass wasting, ...

Coastal erosion on Northern Gulf of Mexico barrier islands is an ongoing issue that was exacerbated by the storm seasons of 2004 and 2005 when several hurricanes made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

South Carolina's Grand Strand is a heavily populated coastal region that
supports a large tourism industry. Like most densely developed coastal
communities, the potential for property damage and lost ...

On the evening of Friday July 17, 1998, a magnitude Ms 7.1 earthquake occurred near the northwest coast Papua New Guinea 850 km (510 miles ) northwest of Port Moresby, the capitol of Papua New Guinea ...

Wildlife preserves and refuges in coastal areas of our nation are slowly
being inundated by increasing sea level. Warming of our global environment
threatens to speed the rate of sea-level rise and ...

These susceptibility maps and the cost assessment data allow landowners in
rural western San Mateo County to determine if their property is impacted by
deep-seated landslide and debris flow hazards ...

Comparison of aerial photographs and ultrahigh-resolution remote sensing data
reveals changes in the geomorphology of a modern carbonate tidal flat. In the
58 yr between acquisition of the two data ...

In 2000, the Maryland Geological Survey (MGS) was awarded a Coastal Zone Management grant to complete the acquisition of a recent (ca. 1990) digital shoreline for the coastal regions of Maryland -- ...

Coincident with the launching of the Earth Observing System is the accumulation
of over 21 years of earth observations by the Landsat borne 30m resolution of
the multispectral Thematic Mapper. This ...

The Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) analyzed changes in the coastal shoreline and sedimentation using Landsat geotiff images as part of the Sediment Analysis Network for Decision Support (SANDS) ...